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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1510 Syria, Trump, and the Kurds: Scott Horton Tells the Story

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The hysteria reached a fever pitch with Trump's recent announcement about American withdrawal from northern Syria. Scott Horton joins me to explain the real situation, and how a satisfactory arrangement might have been reached had the U.S. government not prevented it.

Show notes for Ep. 1510

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 1510.

0:03.1

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:07.7

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

0:13.9

Folks, in school, we got a sanitized upside-down version of the history of the U.S. presidents.

0:19.7

Well, I'm going to bring you the real history.

0:22.3

Check it out at freehistorycourse.com.

0:25.9

Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. So glad to have Scott Horton back with us. You know Scott as the

0:29.7

Libertarian Foreign Policy expert. You can check him out over at scothorton.org. He's got

0:35.3

the Scott Horton show. He's got anti-war radio that he does on

0:38.9

terrestrial radio. He's doing tremendous work over at anti-war.com and the Libertarian Institute.

0:45.2

He's an author, speaker, great guy all around. And I wanted to have him on to talk about

0:50.4

all the commentary and hysteria about Syria, the Kurds, and Donald Trump's decision to get American troops out of northern Syria.

1:00.9

So we're going to talk about that today and try and get to the bottom of what's really going on.

1:04.3

Scott, welcome back.

1:05.6

Hey, Tom, how are you doing?

1:06.6

I'm doing pretty well.

1:08.0

All right.

1:08.6

Obviously, we've got to talk about the Kurds and Syria and Trump and the neocons, not just the neocons, but like all respectable people. We've got to talk about that because I've seen a variety of opinions here, even from people who have by and large supported Trump because they thought he might be a non-interventionist. I've even seen like John Smirak having some difficulty with this

1:29.3

decision. So I want to get to the heart of it. We've seen, as far as I can see, the only at least

1:35.3

outspoken senator supporting Trump here is Rand Paul. And otherwise it's crickets. So what I want to

1:42.4

know is we've heard about Trump is, well, the way it sounded

1:47.6

at the beginning was Trump is moving troops out of Syria in such a way that he's going to endanger

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